Keiwierde en Oldewierde, Almere

Living in Keiwierde en Oldewierde

Keiwierde en Oldewierde is urban but not overwhelming, and the stock is a genuine mix of apartments and family houses (54% houses).

At 7,618 residents per km² the buurt is busy without being packed.

Almere is the Netherlands' youngest city — planned, spacious and car-friendly, with newer housing stock than almost anywhere else in the country. Many residents commute: Amsterdam is around 25 minutes by train, which is exactly the trade many buyers here have chosen.

The housing market in Keiwierde en Oldewierde

The average home value (WOZ) in Keiwierde en Oldewierde is €265,000, which puts it at #147 of 164 neighborhoods in Almere — 24% below the city median, leaving room in the budget that pricier neighborhoods would swallow. For scale: Almere's cheapest buurt averages €130,000 and its most expensive €1,212,000, so Keiwierde en Oldewierde sits in the budget band of the city.

The direction of the market: between 2022 and 2025 the average WOZ value here rose from €227,000 to €300,000, up 32% — roughly in step with the rest of the city. WOZ values lag the market by about a year, but the trend itself is reliable.

Here is the catch for buyers: only 27% of homes are owner-occupied, and 72% of the stock is social housing that never reaches the open market. Few homes come up for sale, so when one does, expect competition and act fast on viewings. The upside of the same number: neighborhoods with a big rental base tend to feel lively and transient rather than settled — decide which you want before you fall for a listing.

Who lives here

Demographically, Keiwierde en Oldewierde is a young-adult neighborhood — the 25-to-45 group outnumbers everyone else (31% of its 1,090 residents), followed by children under 15 at 21%. Households split into 44% singles and 36% families with children — a real mix rather than one lifestyle. The average household counts 2.1 people.

As for who your neighbors would be: incomes skew modest — 60% of households are in the lower national bracket.

Daily errands, coffee and dinner

Day to day: the nearest large supermarket is about 11 minutes' walk; dining out means a short trip: only 4 cafés or restaurants sit within a kilometer.

The practical checklist most buyers forget to make: pharmacy 10 min walk · GP 14 min · hospital 5.7 km · library 1.2 km. None of these will decide a purchase on their own, but a GP taking new patients nearby is the kind of thing you only miss after moving.

Families and schools

For families: the nearest primary school is 12 minutes on foot; daycare is 0.9 km away — check waiting lists early, they are long everywhere in the Netherlands; secondary school is a 5-minute bike ride, which Dutch teenagers do in all weather.

Getting around

Getting around: the nearest train station is 5.2 km out, so day-to-day life here leans on the car or bus; the nearest highway on-ramp is 2.8 km away; car ownership is moderate (0.7 per household).

Energy and running costs

88% of homes were built before 2000. Two identical-looking houses on the same street can differ by hundreds of euros a month once heating is counted — the energy label tells you which one you're looking at, and lenders increasingly price it into your mortgage too.

Before you bid in Keiwierde en Oldewierde

Before you bid in Keiwierde en Oldewierde: listings are scarce here, which pushes bidding above asking more often — decide your maximum before the viewing, not during it. Also, the price gap with the rest of Almere is real, but so is the reason for it — walk the neighborhood at different times of day before committing.

None of these averages can tell you whether the specific house you found is fairly priced — that depends on its size, energy label, state of maintenance and the recent sales around it. That is exactly what a free HomeReview report checks, in about 10 seconds, for any Dutch address.

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